Senate Panel Approves Antitrust Bill Restricting Big Tech Platforms
WASHINGTON—A Senate panel approved antitrust legislation forbidding the largest tech platforms from favoring their own products and services over competitors’,...
Politics/International Relations
Citigroup Sticks With Its Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate, While GE Drops Its Rules
Citigroup Inc. C -1.25% is sticking with its Covid-19 vaccine mandate for its U.S. workers. General Electric Co. GE 0.68%...
Fed Releases Transcripts of 2016 Policy Meetings
Transcripts released by the Federal Reserve on Friday revealed the extent of officials’ 2016 debate over how fast to move...
Biden Taps Economists Lisa Cook, Philip Jefferson for Fed Seats
President Biden will seek to fill two seats on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors with academic economists Lisa Cook...
U.S. Retail Sales Fell 1.9% in December
U.S. retail sales dropped by 1.9% in December as the Covid-19 Omicron variant and inflation surged, damping the end of...
U.S. Jobless Claims Rise to 230,000
Filings for jobless claims rose to a seasonally adjusted 230,000 last week, an increase of 23,000, as a tight U.S....
Facebook’s Former Elections Boss Now Questions Social Media’s Impact on Politics
Katie Harbath joined Facebook FB -0.20% more than a decade ago as the first Republican employee in the company’s Washington,...
U.S. to Spend $10 Billion to Boost Small Businesses
The U.S. is planning to hand out $10 billion to help upstart companies gain access to capital in a bid...
U.S. Jobs Report Shows Record Annual Gain
Hiring slowed in December to 199,000 new jobs, the Labor Department said Friday, while the U.S. added a record number...
Consumer Demand for Goods Drove U.S. Import Surge During Holidays
U.S. consumer demand for goods and an easing of supply-chain constraints drove a surge in imports in November, pushing the...
Job Openings on Track for New High Ahead of Omicron Wave
U.S. job openings are on track to have ended last year at a record high in a strong labor market...
Trump-Appointed Chairman’s Resignation Hands Control of FDIC to Democrats
WASHINGTON—Jelena McWilliams’s decision to resign as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. paves the way for Democrats to gain...
Economy Week Ahead: Eurozone Manufacturing, U.S. Jobs Report
A worker checked bodywork at the Iveco plant in Suzzara, Italy, in December. The state of European manufacturing will be...
Headaches and Backlogs Loom as Tax Filing Season Nears Again
WASHINGTON—The third tax-filing season during the coronavirus pandemic is set to begin soon with more delays, uncertainty and frustration likely...
Beijing Fell Short on Trade Deal Promises, Creating Dilemma for Biden
WASHINGTON—Beijing’s commitment to step up purchases of U.S. goods and services under a 2020 trade pact expires Friday with China...
Facebook’s Pushback: Stem the Leaks, Spin the Politics, Don’t Say Sorry
The day after former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen went public in October, the company’s team in Washington started...
WSJ News Exclusive | Biden Eyes Raskin as Top Fed Banking Regulator
President Biden is considering Sarah Bloom Raskin for a top role at the Federal Reserve as part of a slate...
Governments Wrestling With Omicron Weigh Mitigation Versus Containment
The Christmas holiday weekend began as more governments wrestled with whether to focus on containing the spread of the Omicron...
U.S. Will Waive In-Person Interviews for H-1B, Other Work Visas
WASHINGTON—The State Department is temporarily dropping an in-person interview requirement for some work-visa categories in 2022 to ease visa issuances,...
Turkey Rolls Out Economic Rescue Plan, Reversing Lira’s Spiral
ISTANBUL—Turkey’s currency mounted a dramatic, partial reversal from a monthslong collapse on Tuesday after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a...
